About

Attack On Gaming is the gaming media website dedicated to having fun and playing games while watching anime. Outside of a specific member of staff, we are not journalists, nor do we claim to be them. We don’t claim to be bloggers either, but, we’re probably closer to that really. We do claim to be members of the gaming media, a publication on talking about video games, and a site that focuses on generating original pieces on gaming centered on whichever topics interest us at the time of writing.

One of the founding principles of Attack On Gaming was that any reporting that we do, will not contain any of our own biases, and any subjective piece that we create will have our biases be known. The best idea that we could come up with when reporting on news is to not report on it at all, but rather, to present the resources that this news is generally produced from. In general, these come in the form of Press Releases. The reason that we released the content in as close to original format as possible is so that the reader can take all of the information that we’ve been given and come to their own conclusions without our own bias’ getting in the way of that.

At Attack On Gaming, we hope to be ad-free for as long as we possibly can. This is so that issues, like the ones in Gertsmanngate and Doritogate, do not ever come up and affect our writing. However, if a sponsorship deal comes our way and it doesn’t look like it will create conflicts with our writing then we may not turn it down.

So I just wanted to make clear before I posted this over on Stormfront, you won’t be pushing any sort of multicultural or socially progressive malarkey with your video game content, right? That’d be a nice change.

http://attackongaming.com/ Gaming Admiral

We look at games as games. The only agenda we push is that games are games. Also, sometimes, we poke fun at the industry. But only sometimes.

Since the whole “Gamergate” mess, people have been searching for more reliable, uncorrupted gaming sites that do not force politics down their readers throats, do not have political agenda and do not insult their own readers or even gamers as a whole.
I believe that many knew about corruption in gaming journalism, but none of us could even grasp how far that corruption goes, not until many “gaming sites” started attacking GAMERS as a whole for exposing such corruption. Naturally, people had enough of it and are searching for alternatives.

http://attackongaming.com/ Gaming Admiral

I didn’t realise people actually read about pages, haha! This has been here since close to day 1, and it was more or less something the be rewritten but never got around to doing it.

Skarn22

The site had an interesting name and tagline (“Why do people think we’re journalists?”), so I wanted to see what you guys were about, what makes you different from other sites.

So to prevent influential marketing and biases, you’re just going to republish press releases from companies trying to sell you their games, which is basically marketing? Okay.

http://attackongaming.com/ Gaming Admiral

“This leaves it up to you to make your own interpretations of the
content, dig out the information that you decide is important and
valuable[…]”
To clarify, it’s really to stop our own biases from making it in there. It’s also to prevent spin from our writers for agenda pushing.

Zealuu

How does that work with reviews?

http://attackongaming.com/ Gaming Admiral

With our gaming reviews, we state our biases at the bottom. Check out our Gauntlet review as an example. Gaming reviews are always our personal opinion, but we’re honest as we can write.

Zealuu

In the reviews of Gauntlet and Hyrule Warriors, the reviewer states their relationship with the franchise towards the bottom, but that’s not really an exhaustive list of potential biases, though?

I don’t really think you should write an essay about yourself to go with each piece, but I think it would be more productive in the long run to drop the pretense of objectivity. The one thing all academic fields that deal with text in some form has been able to agree on is that all writing, in all fields, is inherently subjective, or biased, because it comes from people who exist and have thoughts. And for the past half century, subjective reporting isn’t just tacitly accepted as it was even when we collectively pretended it was objective, but openly acknowledged as a result of objectivity being an ideal it is impossible to meet in reality.

Even in the act of pre-empting your own biases by being forthcoming about them, you add another layer of potential bias.

http://attackongaming.com/ Gaming Admiral

We actually don’t pretend to be objective at all. We realise everything has the potential for bias, but we move to reduce it as much as possible.

Removing 100% of bias is impossible. The best workaround we could come up with was to leave “news” (lol), as unaltered as possible, and to do reviews by stating that we are fans of a franchise and etc.

Our goal has always been to have the viewer come to their own conclusions on things.

P.S. Essays are boring, we can state enough info in a sentence or two.

Zealuu

If your goal is to have viewers come to their own conclusions, doesn’t that make reviewing and scoring games a bit… Superfluous?

Nevflinn

Everyone makes a review of the games they play. The difference is whether or not they articulate this with others.

http://attackongaming.com/ Gaming Admiral

We hope that we do, at least somewhat

http://attackongaming.com/ Gaming Admiral

Most of our scores are tongue in cheek. The main idea is to have people read the content. Our regular readers know of this, but we should probably state it somewhere for all the newcomers as well.
For the best example of this, check out most of our Anime reviews.